Beauty, talent and a sense of style—AD celebrates 10 silver screen legends memorably captured in the privacy of home.

Joan Crawford poses beside her ornate gilt grand piano in her Georgian-style house on Bristol Avenue in Brentwood, which she owned for three decades. She had been living on Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills, but when stardom demanded a grander lifestyle, Louis B. Mayer—in a transaction not uncommon for studio chiefs eager to perpetuate the myth of stardom—loaned her $40,000 to buy the house. Her friend William Haines, a well-known Hollywood decorator and former actor, persuaded her to completely transform her Brentwood house and to abandon her collection of 2,000 dolls.